After leaving the office, Javier took Natalia straight to the supermarket to buy groceries and household items. After being stalked all afternoon, Natalia now feels immune to even being photographed, and can ignore him….
Back at home, Javier was cooking and frying, and Natalia was at his side, her right hand forced to follow his left everywhere.
Disgusted by the smoke coming out of the frying pan, Natalia wanted to move away but couldn’t, so she spoke to him again:
-Javier, even though I’m sick of being tied to you like this, I can’t do anything to bring her body back, she really can’t go back, why else would Dr. Thiago say ‘unless there’s a miracle’?
Javier paused in his frying, Dr. Thiago did say that, and with Natalia’s second personality so stable, there was no chance whatsoever that Natalia’s master personality would come back out….
With a shrinking heart, he turned off the fire, poured the vegetables and looked at her.
-No, I don’t think she’s dead, she’s just sleeping.
Natalia let out a scornful chuckle:
-Wow, did she give you a dream?
Javier said firmly:
-She couldn’t leave me.
Natalia looks Javier up and down.
-It’s also true that the ‘puppy’ she raised by herself has become a big wolf dog, it’s a shame, she can’t come back…..
Javier turned and left with the dishes, and Natalia was forced to follow him.
Sitting at the table, Natalia did not want to sit with him this time and went to the opposite side of the rectangular table, where the two cuffed hands were to rest on the tabletop.
Javier moved his bowl closer and picked up the spoon to serve the soup, looking at Natalia with a measured tone.
-You’ll never leave with her body. Let’s compete to see who has more patience, and see if I get tired of being tied to you like this first, or if you can’t bear to leave and give me back the person I love.
Natalia’s hands clenched tightly under the table….
She hadn’t taken advantage of this body’s initiative to tie herself to him, no matter what, she was going to escape!
Getting him to let his guard down was the priority at the moment….
Having made up her mind, Natalia also set out to have a leisurely dinner.
When you finish eating, go together to do the dishes.
Then it was time for the bathroom.
Javier pushed her into the bedroom.
Natalia examines the small room, a large bed with gray sheets occupies most of the space, the back of the headboard is quite unusual, it looks like a ladder placed horizontally…
Wait, it can’t be…
Before she knew it, Javier pulled her forward, tugged her right hand, she bent down and, with a click, her right hand was handcuffed to the -ladder- at the head of the bed, and his hand was free….
She didn’t even see him take out his keys!
Watching Javier rub his left wrist, Natalia pulled hard on the handcuffs.
-You! Javier, don’t overdo it!
Javier smiled.
-Excessive? Weren’t you more excessive when you imprisoned me underground in the darkness of heaven and earth? I was just giving you an eye for an eye.
Then he turned away, picked up his clothes and went into the bathroom to shower.
Natalia sat on the edge of the bed and looked down to see what kind of mechanism the handcuffs had, but she couldn’t see any mystery anywhere….
Ten minutes later, Javier came out in his gray pajamas, smelling fresh out of the shower, and approached Natalia, bending down very willingly to remove the handcuffs and gesturing in the direction of the closet.
-Go take a shower.
Natalia hurriedly sat up from the bed and instead of going to the bathroom, she ran to the door, the bedroom door opened easily, she ran to the door but couldn’t open it….
It’s a combination lock plus fingerprint, inside and out!
What kind of sick lock is this?
Javier stood in the bedroom doorway, leaning against the door frame, watching Natalia fumble with the code on the keypad, and said weakly:
-There is only one way for you to get out of here, and that is the window, I’ll be frank, here on the 29th floor.